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I watched The Blob on Friday night and it looked fantastic. The blacks, detail, overall contrast,and especially the colors, were all just top notch. It escapes me how a film like The Blob which was at best a B film, even at the time, can look this great while The Great Escape looks drab,flat, colorless and digital looking.

I watched The Blob on Friday night and it looked fantastic. The blacks, detail, overall contrast,and especially the colors, were all just top notch. It escapes me how a film like The Blob which was at best a B film, even at the time, can look this great while The Great Escape looks drab,flat, colorless and digital looking.

Art

The Great Escape was Fox and MGM, right? Why did MGM **** up GoldenEye after doing all the other Bond films justice? Why did Fox **** up Patton? Why did Fox **** up Predator? Do you really want to know why or are you just picking at the wound?

The Great Escape was Fox and MGM, right? Why did MGM **** up GoldenEye after doing all the other Bond films justice? Why did Fox **** up Patton? Why did Fox **** up Predator? Do you really want to know why or are you just picking at the wound?

The answer pretty much boils down to laziness.

Well a real conern really is the position I see that it is just the age of the film and the fact that it really couldn't look better than this because it isn't a high profile release etc...and The Blob is all those things and less and looks spectacular. I feel that The Great Escape is not just neglected but negatively manipulated.

as Mr Harris has said a million times , the more popular a movie was during its theatrical run , the more its negative was abused by making a gazillion prints.

therefore B Grade movies are more likely to have better elements
Plus Escape was full of dissolves and opticals and they'll always look dupey. And there are rumours that the blu ray didnt come from a 4k scan from the optimal source , I cant remember, but i think an interpositive was scanned

I think the ones that run for a long time are chewed up parts of the negative that have been replaced with new negative created from color separations. UA apparently didn't take the best care of their film elements in the day.

The Great Escape was released by United Artists, which tended to release films from a variety of producers and did not have a studio as such. I know many, many old UA films (and remember, it was started right after the First World War by Doug Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, DW Griffith and Charlie Chaplin), films that turn up on TCM, look like they are from dupes of dupes of dupes. Its not like they were in a position to take care of the elements for their films the way Warners or MGM or 20th Century Fox were.